Inspection Flashcards
What is included in VPS2?
Inspections, investigations and records
What is insitiutional level industrial?
- Stell portal frame
- Insulated profiled steel cladding walls and roof
- Min 8 meters clear eaves
- Min 10% roof lights
- Min 30KN/sq m floor loading
- Plastic coated steel profiled cladding with brick or clockwork walls to approx 2 meters
- Electric full height loading doors
- 3 phase power (415 Volts)
- 5-10% office content with WC facilities
- Main services capped off
- Site cover approx 40%
- LED lighting
What are the main defects of an industrial unit?
- Roof leaks particularly around roof lights
- Damaged cladding pannels
- Cut edge corrosion
- Blocked valley gutters
- Settilement/cracking
What are the main types of office construction?
- Either steel frame (useulally less columns and wider span between columns) or concrete frame (more coloumns, lower floor height and shorter span between column)
What are the main defects of an office?
- Damp penetration at roof/GF level
- Water damage - burst air pipes and a/c units
- Structural movement
- Damaged cladding
- Cavity wall tie failure
- Effovencene and poor motor joints
What environmental factors would you consider during an inspection?
- Proximity to water
- Any fuel tanks/ad blue/ other liley causes of contamination
- presence of asbestos
- local occupiers and if they are likley to cause contaminiation
- use of site
- precence of japenees knotweed
What steps do you take while loan working?
What is included in PPE?
- Mobile phone
- High viz
- Hard hat
- Steel toe cap shoes
What do you searches do you make during a desktop search?
- OS Maps
- Flood maps
- Planning history of site and local area
- EPC
- Asbestos register
- Title plan showing boudaries
- Lease
What is a GOAD map?
A map of retail areas showing individual units with shop names. Include pedestrian zones, road crossings and car parks
What are the main types of Asbestos?
Brown (amosite)
Blue (Crocidolite)
White (Chrysolite)
How do you identify asbestos?
Request copies of Asbestos management survey
What are the causes of damp?
- water ingress (leaking roof/blocked gutter)
- condensation
- burst water pipes
- rising damp
4 steps of an inspection
- Consdier personal saftey
- Inspection of local area
- External inspection
- Internal inspection
What are common defects in period buildings?
- Rising damp (below 1.5m)
- Penetrating damp
- Dry rot
- Water ingress
- Structural movement
What specification is Grade A office space?
- Full access raised floors with floor boxes
- Approx ceiling height 2.6-2.8 m
- Ceiling void 350mm and a raised floor void 150 mm
- Maximised oppertunities for daylight with 300-500 lux average
- approx floor loading of 2.5 - 3 kn/sq m
- Air conditioning
- double glazed windows
- Passenger lifts
- planning grid of 1.5 m x 1.5m
- 1 cycle space per 10 staff and 1 shower per 100 staff
- 8m2 to 10m2 general workspace nesity
When doing a valuation inspection what factors do you consider?
- location
- aspect
- deftects
- occupier details
- tenure
- form of construction
- current condtion
When doing a PAM inspection what factors do you consider?
If occupied
* Check lease complience
* Check statutory complience
* Condition of the building
* Need for repairs or redecoration
* Occupier details match lease
If unoccupied
* Statutory complience
* State of builiding
* Repair/maintenence
* Security
* Landscaping
* Risk of vandalism/damage
When doing an agency inspection what factors do you consider?
- Current condition of the building
- Repairs/maintence issues
- Statutory complience
- Services
- Presentation
- Flexibility
- Marketability
